Some investors seem to have decided suddenly that nobody will ever make any money from commerce on the web, so they are dumping almost all their dot.com shares.

ECONOMIST: From dot.com to dot.bomb

Seattle could even find itself left behind in the dot.com revolution, since local companies such as Amazon.com, HomeGrocer.com and Drugstore.com have staked their all on the consumer market just when the business-to-business dot.com market looks like an even bigger profit-maker.

ECONOMIST: Troubled cities 2

According to a December 2011 report from the US Department of Transportation (DOT), 77% of the 6, 002 drivers surveyed admitted to answering phone calls on all, some or most car trips and said that there are only a few situations (such as bad weather or bumper-to-bumper traffic) where they would refrain from talking on the phone.

BBC: Should cars be a mobile-free space?